Jon Rainford

Jon is a staff tutor in Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport and an associate lecturer in Sociology. He is also an OU Study addict and has been studying on and off since 2009. Being an OU student was transformative for Jon and early in his OU studies he was first diagnosed as dyslexic. More recently he has also been diagnosed as having ADHD. None of this stopped him from being awarded his PhD in 2019 and in fact it is the unique way he thinks that he credits his academic success to. His research focuses on access to and success in higher education and recently completed a study with Renu Bhandari on the transitions of neurodivergent students from access to level 1. Outside of researching and writing he is a keen runner and photographer.

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